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Tiny Billboards for Ant-Man Are Popping Up That Ants Are Really Going to Love
There's something irresistible about tiny billboards. We've seen them before, of course—for example, there was this LittleBigPlanet campaign from 2008 and this Lego stunt from 2012. And now, the...
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NYC Agency Sagmeister & Walsh Says It Was Robbed, but It's Strange What Got...
Sagmeister & Walsh says a brazen robbery has occurred at its New York offices, with three men making off with its most valuable property—and the whole thing caught on tape by the ceiling camera...
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Glock Shoots First, Asks Questions Later With This Strange Earth Day Tweet
Earth Day is a special day—a day to think about Mother Earth and how to keep her happy by recycling, by conserving her riches, by protecting her. A number have brands have posted environmental images...
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Foot Locker Catches Emoji Fever With 80 Individually Drawn 'Shoemojis'
If your brand hasn't made custom emojis yet, sorry—it's now mandatory. Or so it seems, given the rush of marketers doing so. And the latest brand to jump quite literally into the mix is Foot Locker,...
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A Man Discovers He's a Bot in This Amusing Warning About Click Fraud
Click fraud is a big problem, but it's also an exceedingly boring topic. So, how do you liven it up to warn marketers about it? The Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau has tried a bit of comedy in the...
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Droga5, Morgan Spurlock Show You How the Toyota Mirai Is 'Fueled by Bullsh*t'
Toyota wants you to know it has a car that literally runs on bullshit. This new ad for the automaker's Mirai fuel cell vehicle features an engineer visiting a dairy farm, loading a pickup bed with cow...
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Check Out this YouTuber Making Some Insane Trick Shots With Oreo Cookies
Showing crazy trick shots is a pretty good way of getting viral video views, as we've seen in branded efforts from Wheaties (bowling), McDonald's (soccer)—and of course, that old, fake-as-hell Michael...
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These Posh Videos Show You How to Pronounce Ogilvy & Mather 'Like a Lord'
Do the Spanish have a tough time pronouncing "Ogilvy & Mather." Apparently so, judging from this comical video series from the agency's Spain operation—aimed at getting people to pronounce the...
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Zooey Deschanel Says the Word 'Adorkable' Came From Fox Marketing and Isn't...
Many actors deal with fans confusing them with their characters. But not many have a term like "adorkable" following them around. Unfortunately for Zooey Deschanel, the star of Fox's New Girl since...
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Manny Pacquiao Wonders If Mayweather Fight Is On, or If It's All Just a Foot...
Foot Locker is happy it can finally celebrate the upcoming Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao fight—for real. Last fall, the shoe store released a commercial in which Pacquiao thought Mayweather had...
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Hallmark's Mother's Day Ads Are Shockingly Edgy. Just Kidding, They're...
Adland's trend toward weepy gratitude continues, just in time for Mother's Day, as Hallmark rolls out a series of videos from Leo Burnett in which people express love and appreciation for their moms....
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YouTube Star Hannah Witton Gives Candid Advice About Sex in Durex Campaign
As brands continue to use popular YouTubers for ad campaign, Durex has found the perfect endorser with Hannah Witton—a vlogger whose non-branded content already includes plenty of talk about sex and...
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Here's the Most Fascinating Slide From BuzzFeed's 2008 Pitch to Investors
Back in 2008, BuzzFeed was a two-person editorial operation with 750,000 monthly visitors, but it already knew exactly where it was headed. It was, at the time, just a sliver of what the media empire...
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Dora the Explorer Is a Dream-Crushing Buzzkill in Geico's Excellent New Ad
Geico's "It's What You Do" campaign, while mildly amusing, hasn't produced any true gems—until now. While it would be nice not to spoil the ending of the Antarctic ad below, Geico kinda gives away the...
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Text Like a Creative Superstar With These Advertising Emojis
The obsession with emojis comes to ad agencies' corner of the universe today with the launch of Advertising Emojis, created by Swedish ad agency Dogwash. Among the 70-odd images are famous ad awards...
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These New Orleans Tourism Ads Are Good Fun, but It's the Voiceover That's...
The best marketing embodies, rather than just projects, the message it's trying to deliver. And 360i's new tourism campaign for New Orleans is a good example of that. Three TV spots all use the same...
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Guy Proposes to His Girlfriend Using a Skyscraper and a Million Post-it Notes
There's a famous scene in Sleepless in Seattle where Meg Ryan's character looks out the window and sees the Empire State Building all lit up with a heart in the windows, setting unrealistic...
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McDonald's Updates Its Famously Minimalist Ads in France to Include Emojis
McDonald's in France makes some of the most spare, striking outdoor ads anywhere. For the past couple of years, the OOH ads have shown just the menu items, with almost no branding at all—first in...
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Anti-Littering Campaign Uses DNA to Identify Litterbugs and Put Their Faces...
Thinking of littering in Hong Kong? You could soon be a poster child for the problem. A remarkable campaign from Ogilvy & Mather takes DNA from trash on the ground and uses Snapshot DNA...
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Meet the British Brand That Gleefully Hates 'Fatties' and Their Sympathizers
Not everyone thinks having a so-called beach body means being a svelte, bikini-clad model. Now, British people are creatively reminding one advertiser of that. U.K. fitness brand Protein World has...
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